Norwegian free-invoicing-first accounting SaaS (founded 2009); 165K+ users, Norwegian-owned (founders + Must Invest), but runs entirely on AWS.
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- €9/Mt.
- CLOUD ACT
- MATERIAL
Zusammenfassung aus Eigentümerschaft und CLOUD-Act-Risiko.
Norwegian cloud accounting for sole traders and small companies; founder-owned, Norway-hosted, flat monthly pricing.
Fiken aus der Kategorie Buchhaltung bietet EU-Hosting mit Norway als Hosting-Standort, doch ein US-Mutterkonzern oder Unterauftragsverarbeiter hinterlässt ein materielles CLOUD-Act-Risiko.
Fiken AS (Oslo, founder-owned, primary data hosted in Norway in an ISO 27001/9001 datacenter with a publicly accessible DPA) nonetheless lists 20+ US-owned sub-processors — including AWS, Microsoft and Google for backup of stored data plus OpenAI for AI features — so despite a clean Norwegian core the data-at-rest backup chain creates material CLOUD Act exposure, capping the score at 3/5.
Wie stark Kundendaten US-Behörden nach dem CLOUD Act ausgesetzt sind.
Wo die letztliche Kontrolle über das Betreiberunternehmen liegt.
Fiken (Fiken AS, Oslo, founded 2014) is Norway's most popular do-it-yourself cloud accounting tool for sole proprietorships (enkeltpersonforetak) and small limited companies (aksjeselskap). It bundles bookkeeping, invoicing, bank reconciliation, VAT/MVA reporting, payroll with a-melding, annual accounts and the tax return into one flat monthly fee — from 229 NOK/mo (€20) for sole traders and ~349 NOK/mo for an AS, after a 30-day free trial. There is no permanent free tier. The product is praised for radical simplicity and a strong public REST API (api.fiken.no) widely used by Norwegian fintech integrations, banks and accountants. Crucially for a sovereignty audit, Fiken is one of the rare profitable, fully founder-owned European SaaS companies: the three founders — Bendik Gill Bakken (CEO), Joakim Blomskøld and Aleksander Blomskøld — still hold ~33.33% each, with no PE, VC or US capital on the cap table (Finansavisen reported in April 2025 that the trio had each become NOK-billionaires on the business; ~87 employees, ~375M NOK 2024 revenue). Primary data is hosted in Norway, partly to satisfy the Norwegian Bookkeeping Act, in a datacenter the company says is ISO 27001:2013 / ISO 9001:2015 certified. The caveat is the sub-processor stack: the published databehandler list names AWS, Microsoft and Google for backup, OpenAI for AI assistance, plus a long tail of US SaaS (Intercom, Freshdesk, Mailchimp, Twilio, Sentry, New Relic, Slack, Notion, Meta), all under SCCs. The UI is Norwegian-only, so practical reach is the Norwegian market rather than pan-EU.
Norwegian free-invoicing-first accounting SaaS (founded 2009); 165K+ users, Norwegian-owned (founders + Must Invest), but runs entirely on AWS.
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